Govt to 'take time to get it right' on new national wage bargaining proposals
By Pattrick Smellie Jan. 31 (BusinessDesk) - The government's tri-partite working group on a new system of Fair Pay Agreement national wage bargaining has agreed a broad framework, but employers are baulking at a proposal to require all workers in a sector or occupation to be...
EU votes to reduce NZ export rights
By Pattrick Smellie Jan. 30 (BusinessDesk) - The European Union's parliament has taken a decisive step towards unilaterally reducing New Zealand's rights to export specified quantities of tariff-free sheepmeat, beef and dairy products to the trading bloc if and when Brexit occ...
Ex-KiwiBuild boss speaks out: leadership style reflected urgency
By Pattrick Smellie Jan. 28 (BusinessDesk) - The ex-chief executive of the government's KiwiBuild initiative, Stephen Barclay, is accusing the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development of breaching his privacy by revealing that "leadership behaviour" was at the heart of an emp...
Reserve Bank extends consultation on controversial new capital rules
By Pattrick Smellie Jan. 25 (BusinessDesk) - The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has added a little over a month for submissions on its proposals to require the country's largest banks to carry substantially more capital on their balance sheets to reduce the risk of bank failures...
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